9. The European Commission

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morten Egeberg
Keyword(s):  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
International Organization ◽  
External Relations ◽  
Policy Making Process ◽  
Defence Policy ◽  
Implementation Programme

This chapter focuses on the European Commission, arguing that it is more productive to compare it to national executives or to a government than to a secretariat of a traditional international organization. It first provides an overview of the Commission's functions within the European Union's policy-making process, including agenda-setting, policy implementation, programme management, and external relations, and notes that the Commission plays a more limited role in foreign, security, and defence policy. The chapter proceeds by discussing the question of Commission influence and autonomy, along with the structure, demography, and decision behaviour within the Commission. It also describes committees and administrative networks that link the Commission to national administrations and interest groups, as well as the recent growth of EU agencies.

Positive Reintegration as a Way of Small and Medium-Sized Business Development

2012 ◽  
pp. 83-88
Author(s):  
A. Zolotov ◽  
M. Mukhanov
Keyword(s):  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
Alternative Possibility ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Compensation Mechanisms ◽  
Policy Making Process ◽  
Monitoring And Enforcement ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Modernization Process

А new approach to policy-making in the field of economic reforms in modernizing countries (on the sample of SME promotion) is the subject of this article. Based on summarizing the ten-year experience of de-bureaucratization policy implementation to reduce the administrative pressure on SME, the conclusion of its insufficient efficiency and sustainability is made. The alternative possibility is the positive reintegration approach, which provides multiparty policy-making process, special compensation mechanisms for the losing sides, monitoring and enforcement operations. In conclusion matching between positive reintegration principles and socio-cultural factors inherent in modernization process is provided.

8. The Commission Services: A powerful permanent bureaucracy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liesbet Hooghe ◽  
Christian Rauh
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
International Organization ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Eu Governance ◽  
Organization Models

This chapter examines the functions and organization of the European Commission services, arguing that they are a bureaucracy with unique agenda-setting powers at the heart of the European Union polity. It begins with an overview of the origins and evolution of the Commission services, focusing on the influence of Jean Monnet, first President of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), and how the services were shaped by national bureaucratic models as well as international organization models. The chapter proceeds by discussing the Commission services’ powers, structure, and functioning and what the officials think about the role of the institution with respect to agenda-setting, nationality, and EU governance. It argues that while the Commission bureaucracy has become more circumspect of bold political initiatives, neither its capacity nor its will to play a strong policy role in Europe have been significantly weakened.

The Economic and Social Committee in EEC decision making

1980 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliet Lodge ◽  
Valentine Herman
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
Policy Making Process ◽  
Attitudinal Changes ◽  
Instrumental Role

Neo-functionalism ascribes a dynamic role to interest groups in the process of integrating pluralist communities. By participating in the policymaking process, interest groups are expected to develop a stake in promoting further integration in order to acquire economic payoffs and additional benefits from maintaining and stimulating the organization through which certain demands can be articulated and goals attained. This implies that in the integration process interest groups have an instrumental role to play in the maintenance of the system; and that by virtue of their participation in the policy-making process of an integrating community they will “learn” about the rewards of such involvement and undergo attitudinal changes inclining them favorably towards the system. Thus, they acquire an interest in seeing the system's perpetuation, and the policy and decision makers acquire an interest in being responsive to interest groups' demands. What is implied overall is that actors' loyalties will shift towards those decision makers in the systems best able to reward them.

scholarly journals Lobbying influence: public consultations and EU policy making

VUZF Review ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 3-12
Author(s):  
Tatyana Todorova
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Democratic Legitimacy ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Public Consultations

The European Commission considers involvement of interest groups as a way to strengthen democratic legitimacy in the European Union (EU). In terms of a strategy for enhancing good governance, the Commission has taken a range of actions to increase civil society inclusion. Whether these measures really add up to democratic legitimacy, however, depends on the allocation of influence among interest groups. In this context, the purpose of this study will be to analyze the distribution of influence by means of a quantitative analysis of submissions via the Commission’s public consultations.

How can universities contribute to regional competitiveness policy-making?

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-117
Author(s):  
Mari Jose Aranguren ◽  
Edurne Magro
Keyword(s):  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Regional Competitiveness ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Anchor Institutions ◽  
Implementation Approach ◽  
Policy Making Process ◽  
Multiple Domain

Purpose This paper aims to contribute to understanding regional competitiveness policy-making and the role academic organisations can play in that process. Competitiveness policies have evolved in the past decades from a single to a multiple-domain field, which has made the policy-making process more complex by adding more actors with their particular experience and view. This complexity, together with the relevance of overcoming traditional policy implementation failures, pleads for a new approach to competitiveness policy-making, in which academic organisations can act as “anchor institutions”. This framework is based on the adaptive implementation concept. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses the Basque case to analyse the role of universities in competitiveness policy-making and focuses on a specific academic organisation, which has contributed through different projects to regional policy-making. Evidences from those projects through different policy phases are included in the case. Findings The case shows how academic organisations might play a key role in fostering an adaptive implementation approach in competitiveness policy-making at the regional level and which specific characteristics these organisations should develop to fulfil this role. Originality/value This paper brings together two important issues for regional competitiveness: the importance of policy implementation and the particular role of engaged universities in such a process.

The European Commission and Interest Groups: Towards a Deliberative Interpretation of Stakeholder Involvement in EU Policy-making, by Irina Tanasescu. Brussels: V.U.B. Press, 2009, 285 pp., € 38.50, Paperback.

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 455-456
Author(s):  
Alan Hardacre
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Stakeholder Involvement ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Important Research ◽  
Eu Policy ◽  
Political Scandals

The interaction between organised interests and the European Union institutions has been subject to increasing study and analysis in recent years, and the relevance of this increasingly important research agenda has been highlighted by political scandals and developments in 2011.

Policies from scandal

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha A. Shave
Keyword(s):  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Feedback Mechanism ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Poor Law ◽  
Policy Making Process ◽  
Local Relief ◽  
Relief System

This chapter examines the role of welfare scandals in policy-making after the passage of the Amendment Act. The post-1834 relief system opened the policy-making process to a number of other stakeholders to make their own demands on the relief system, such as the medical profession. These ‘stakeholders’, and notable ‘key actors’ from the anti-New Poor Law movement shaped the direction of social policies during the early years of the New Poor Law, not the Commission alone. The existence of a central authority, to hold the local authorities to account, ensured that policies developed in ways which would resolve problems encountered nationally. This meant that the experiences of the poorest played a role in the policy-making process when their voices were carried to the ears of authority. There was, essentially, a feedback mechanism between policy implementation and policy evaluation and change stages of the policy process under the New Poor Law. The creation of a centralised welfare authority brought with it centralised accountability for local relief administration.

scholarly journals Laying the Groundwork: Linking Internal Agenda-Setting Processes of Interest Groups to Their Role in Policy Making

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (8) ◽  
pp. 1337-1359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darren R. Halpin ◽  
Bert Fraussen
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Collaborative Governance ◽  
Qualitative Evidence ◽  
Heuristic Device

Although scholarship has highlighted the role of stakeholders in policy making, less is known about the preparations they make that lay the groundwork for their lobbying activities. This article links ideas on collaborative governance with the study of agenda setting within interest groups. We outline an orthodox mode of agenda setting that anticipates groups possess a proactive policy mode, an institutionalized policy platform, and a pyramid-like agenda structure. Subsequently, we use this orthodox mode as a heuristic device for examining agenda structures and processes, combining survey data on the practices of groups in Australia with illustrative qualitative evidence.

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